Are you looking for a new challenge to start your day off? Each day, a fresh NYT Connections puzzle is released at midnight in your time zone, allowing players to engage with ‘today’s game’ or ‘yesterday’s game.’ If you’re keen on tackling Sunday’s puzzle, you can find hints and answers for February 16th here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, February 16 (game #616).

Greetings! Let’s dive into Connections, a stimulating word game by the NYT that tests your ability to categorize answers into different groups. Feeling stuck? Keep reading for some useful hints for Connections. And once you’ve completed one puzzle, why not try your hand at some other word games too? You can also find daily hints and answers for Strands and Quordle in addition to Wordle.

For those venturing into today’s NYT Connections challenge (game #617), the words to focus on are DOUBLE, BLOW, SNAKE, BREAK, LEAVE, WIND, CAT, STRIKE, SPARE, REST, SWORD, WEAVE, VACATION, CURVE, TURKEY, and GOLD.

Looking at the hint categories:
– YELLOW: Take a holiday
– GREEN: Twisty-turny
– BLUE: Ten pin
– PURPLE: Add an animal with scales and fins

And the corresponding groups are:
– YELLOW: TIME OFF (BREAK, LEAVE, REST, VACATION)
– GREEN: FOLLOW A MEANDERING COURSE (CURVE, SNAKE, WEAVE, WIND)
– BLUE: BOWLING RESULTS (DOUBLE, SPARE, STRIKE, TURKEY)
– PURPLE: -__FISH (BLOW, CAT, GOLD, SWORD)

While this may seem straightforward, the challenge varies in difficulty levels from yellow (easy) to purple (very difficult). Players are allowed up to four mistakes and the game can be played for free on the NYT Games site on both desktop and mobile platforms. How do you feel about your performance today? Share in the comments.